FPS has several clinicians with decades of psychological and administrative school experience.
We are available to provide engaging and cutting-edge workshops for school teachers, clinicians, administrators, and parents, as well as inspiration keynote addresses for entire school districts. Following is a brief bio of each of our presenters with corresponding topics offered. Custom presentations are provided upon request. A list of school districts FPS has partnered with in the past few years is provided on the bottom of the page.
Several of our clinicians are ISBE approved Independent Evaluators, and are trained in school-based neuropsychological and diagnostic assessments.
Meet Doug
Dr. Doug Bolton is an educator, clinical psychologist and author who helps school districts throughout the state of Illinois build school communities that enhance the resilience of both students and staff. He has spent his life as an educator and clinician, including over 20 years as a school psychologist and principal at North Shore Academy, a K-12 therapeutic school in Highland Park. In learning how to support the resilience of students who struggle most in schools, Doug and his team discovered the essential elements of school communities that apply to all students in all schools. He has used this knowledge to help school districts create trauma responsive school communities, embed SEL into the school day, enhance student and staff belonging, build student and staff resilience, and support community-wide mental health and wellness.
He provides keynote addresses, professional development workshops, consultation to clinical teams and individual coaching to administrators with the vision of helping all students and staff experience a school community where they can thrive in spite of the many challenges they face in and out of the school building.
Doug’s Talks:
Creating School Communities That Enhance Resilience
Creating School Communities That Enhance Mental Health
Supporting Student Mental Health in a Post-COVID World
From Mis-Behavior to Stress-Behavior: Understanding Emotional Regulation
Mental Health Lessons Learned From COVID
The Surprising Power of Belonging In Schools
Building Trauma Responsive School Communities
7 Strategies for Building Belonging School Communities
Rethinking School Violence
Parenting Post-COVID
Supporting Our Children In Their Hardest Moments
Collaborative Problem Solving
Embedding SEL in our School Communities
The Power of Listening
New book on parenting to be released in 2024!
“Licensed clinical psychologist, certified school psychologist, and licensed educational leader Doug Bolton PhD’s MELTDOWN, offering a new framework and call to action to address the mental health crisis facing adolescents today, showing parents the strong benefits of emotional regulation, belonging, and community, over punishment and pressure, to Lucia Watson at Avery, in an exclusive submission, for publication in September 2024, by Heather Jackson Literary Agency (world).”
Meet Ilene
Dr. Ilene Holt-Turner was a psychologist in the schools for almost 20 years. She has an understanding of the guidelines within school systems as well as how to advocate for supports to address the individual needs of children.
For her, collaboration brings success. Dr. Holt-Turner’s strength-based approach incorporates strategies that lead to the goal of improved relationships, better communication, and higher functioning for children, parents, and families. She has particular expertise in working with children who experience challenges with attention, learning, and emotional regulation issues.
Dr. Holt-Turner’s experience over the years has allowed her the opportunity to provide consultation to school districts, supervision to graduate students, and mentoring to early career psychologists.
Areas of Expertise:
Supervision of School Psychologist Services
ADHD
Anxiety
Executive Functioning
MTSS
Behavior Intervention Planning
Case Consultation
Meet John
Dr. John Frampton is the Co-Founder of FPS, and is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience. He provides psychotherapy to children through adults, school-based neuropsychological assessments, and school consultation. Dr. Frampton is the former Director of the Niles Central High School therapeutic day program.
You may be struggling with your child and how best to respond to their needs. You may want to get them the support they seem to need to help put that smile back on their face. You may want to understand what is getting in the way of your child learning better or performing well in school. Dr. John Frampton can help you with these issues using therapy from a variety of different methods including cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, dialectic behavioral, or psychodynamic therapy. He can also help young people with school-based learning issues by conducting a neuropsychological assessment to understand their learning profile thoroughly with the purpose of providing understanding and increased support for them.
Trainings Provided:
Suicide Risk Assessment in Youth
School Refusal
Parenting Emotionally Healthy Children
Motivational Interviewing
Technology and Youth
CBT in the Schools
Anxiety and Depression in Youth
Executive Functioning in Youth
School Clinical Team Consultation Services
Meet Abby
Dr. Abby Weinstein has worked as a school psychologist supporting students in K-12th grade across the Northern and Northwestern suburbs of Chicago. She received her Educational Doctorate in School Psychology from Loyola University Chicago. She has a passion for supporting children and families with a diverse range of cognitive, social-emotional, linguistic, and functional needs.
She provides psychotherapy to children and adolescents, school-based neuropsychological assessments, parent sessions, and school consultations. As a practicing school psychologist, she enjoyed acting as a thought partner with educators and participating in systems-level initiatives to meet the growing needs of students.
Dr. Weinstein understands that social-emotional and behavioral needs present both challenges and opportunities for educators and administrators to be reflective, creative, and adaptive. She utilizes a strengths-based consultancy conversation around unmet needs, lagging skills, and environmental supports.
Areas of Expertise:
Behavioral and Functional Supports for Diverse Learners
Behavior Intervention Planning
Case consultation
Collaboration and consultation with school-based clinicians
Functional Behavioral Analysis (Data-Tracking and Data Visualization)
MTSS
PBIS
Social-Emotional Learning
Meet Jesus
Dr. Jesus Ramos is bi-lingual (Spanish) School Psychologist certified with the Illinois State Board of Education who has experience working in schools as well as in clinical pediatric settings throughout Chicagoland and surrounding suburbs. Jesus has a wide array of experiences and provides services to meet a variety of needs.
He provides psychotherapy to children and adolescents, school-based neuropsychological assessments, and parent and school consultation. He focuses on a collaborative approach that uses team-based decision making in order to connect with students and families in meeting the needs of individual students, classrooms, and school-wide initiatives. He values connecting with families and integrating key stakeholders into providing effective and comprehensive services.
Dr. Ramos uses ecological models to understand the needs of those he serves and believes that student success relies on meeting social, emotional, behavioral, and educational needs. He values creative and adaptive problem-solving and seeks to provide a strengths-based approach in advocating for the needs of the people he works with.
Areas of Expertise:
Behavioral and Functional Supports for Diverse Learners
Bi-lingual evaluations, counseling, and consultation
Connecting and communicating with Spanish speaking families
Behavior Intervention Planning
English and Spanish case consultation
Collaboration and consultation with school-based clinicians
Functional Behavioral Analysis (Data-Tracking and Data Visualization)
MTSS
PBIS
Social-Emotional Learning
School or parent presentations upon request on a variety of topics
How we can help
Presentations & Workshops
Our practitioners are available to provide presentations and workshops on a variety of topics to parents, schools, other mental health professionals, medical practices, professional and support groups and organizations.
Psychological Testing and Assessment
We provide high quality and timely psychological evaluations designed to assess individuals struggling with a wide range of emotional, behavioral, and/or learning challenges.
In-Person & Virtual Counseling
With the re-opening of schools, students are struggling with increased levels of anxiety, depression and social challenges. Our team is here to meet with students in-person or virtually to support them through Pandemic related mental health concerns.
Together we can!
Children need to feel safe and supported at school. Let us partner with your school to make that happen.
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